Amelia Bedelia Helps Out

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BY PEGGY PARISH

Pictures by Lynn Sweat

AMELIA
BEDEUA
HELPS
OUT
BY PEGGY PARISH

Pictures by Lynn Sweat

AN AVON B^CAMELOT BOOK

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Text copyright © 1979 by Margaret Parish

Illustrations copyright © 1979 by Lynn Sweat
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-11729
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First Camelot Printing, April 1981

The Greenwillow Books edition contains the following Library of
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Summary: Amelia Bedelia shows her niece Effie Lou how to follow instructions

to the letter as they dust the potato bugs and sew seeds
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For Rebecca and Amanda Freedman,

two special young friends,

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"Have a good day"

said Mr. Rogers.

"And you help your aunt^

Effie Lou."

"I wiU;' said Effie Lou.
m come back for you

late this afternoon/'

said Mr. Rogers.

He drove off.

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"What a grand house/' said Effie Lou.

"Miss Emma is a grand woman/'

said Amelia Bedelia.

She went to the door and knocked.

"Come in/' called Miss Emma.

Amelia Bedelia and Effie Lou

went inside.

"I am glad to see you/'

said Miss Emma.

"Sumter is sick

and my garden is a mess."

"Don't you fret/' said Amelia Bedelia,

"We will take care of that.

Just tell us what to do."

"First/' said Miss Emma^

"weed the garden.''

"All right/' said Amelia Bedelia.

Is there anything else?"

Yes" said Miss Emma.

But go ahead

and start

before the sun gets hot."

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"Come on, Effie Lou,"

said Amelia Bedelia.

"Let's get busy."

They went to the garden.

"It does have a lot of weeds,"

said Effie Lou.

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She started to pull one.

"Stop!" said Amelia Bedelia.

"What are you doing?"

"Trying to get the weeds

out of the garden," said Effie Lou,

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"Get them out!'' said Amelia Bedelia.

"She said to weed the garden^

not unweed it

"

"Ohr said Effie Lou. "I wonder

why she wants more weeds."

Amelia Bedelia thought.

"Those weeds are little/' she said.

"Maybe vegetables get hot

just like people. They need

big weeds to shade them.

That's why Miss Emma told us

to weed before the sun gets hot.'"

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"That makes sense," said Effie Lou.

"I see some really big weeds."

"Let's get them," said Amelia Bedelia.

They did.

Soon that garden was weeded.

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